Bret Harte (HART; born Francis Brett Hart; August 25, 1836 – May 5, 1902) was an American short story writer and poet, best remembered for short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush. In a career spanning more than four decades, he also wrote poetry, plays, lectures, book reviews, editorials and magazine sketches. As he moved from California to the eastern U.S. and later to Europe, he incorporated new subjects and characters into his stories, but his Gold Rush tales have been those most often reprinted, adapted and admired.
Bret Harte
Author details
- Born:
- Aug. 5, 1836
- Died:
- Aug. 5, 1902
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Books by Bret Harte
The United States in Literature
by Louisa May Alcott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Thomas Jefferson, and 200 others
The Penguin Book of American Short Stories James Cochrane Editor
by O. Henry, Henry James, Sherwood Anderson, and 21 others
The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales
by Angela Carter, Marcel Schwob, Alejandra Pizarnik, and 32 others
Marc Connelly, Joseph Mitchell, Sinclair Lewis, Dorothy Parker, Mark Twain, Washington Irving, A. J. Liebling, E. E. Cummings, Glen Rounds, Clifton Fadiman, Oliver Herford, Booth Tarkington, Bret Harte, Cornelia Otis Skinner, George Ade, N. P. Willis, Ambrose Bierce, Kenneth Fearing, James M. Cain, Edgar Allan Poe, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Richard Lockridge, Carolyn Wells, E.B. White, Ludwig Bemelmans, James Russell Lowell, Anita Loos, Katharine S. White, Leonard Q. Ross, John Mosher, Edward Streeter, Arthur Kober, Heywood Broun, Frank Moore Colby, McKelway, St. Clair, Frederic S. Cozzens, Charles Heber Clark, Francis Steegmuller, James T. Fields, Moffat, Donald W., Phyllis McGinley, Orpheus C. Kerr, V. Petroleum Nasby, Finley Peter Dunne, Frank Sullivan, Robert C. Benchley, Franklin P. Adams, Gibbs, Wolcott, Corey Ford, Nunnally Johnson, Lucretia P. Hale, Clifford Orr, Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne), Russell Maloney, Geoffrey Hellman, M, George W. Harris, Alfred Henry Lewis, Roark Bradford, Frances Warfield, Billings, Josh, Will Cuppy, Alexander Woolcott, Persis Greely Anderson, George Jean Nathan, Alva Johnston, Sanderson Vanderbilt, E. J. Kahn Jr., John McNulty, Angela Cypher, H. C. Bunner, Irwin Edman, Samuel Hoffenstein, Guiterman, Arthur, Taylor, Bert Leston, Benjamin Franklin, Clarence Hollister Knapp, Kenneth Allan Robinson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Lee Strout White, Stephen Vincent Benét, Ruth Ann McKinney, Ogden Nash, David McCord, Morris Bishop, William Saroyan, Don Marquis, Louis Untermeyer, Day, Clarence, Frank R. Stockton, Donald Ogden Stewart, Eugene Field, Joel Chandler Harris, James Thurber, Sally Benson, H. L. Mencken, S. J. Perelman, Ring Lardner: A Subtreasury of American humor (1962, Capricorn Books)
A Subtreasury of American humor
by Marc Connelly, Joseph Mitchell, Sinclair Lewis, and 95 others
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., O. Henry, George Randolph Chester, Bret Harte, Frank R. Stockton, Mark Twain, Edward Everett, Edgar Allan Poe, Alexander Jessup, George Pope Morris, Caroline M. Kirkland, Eliza Leslie, George William Curtis, Harry Stillwell Edwards, Richard Malcolm Johnston, Grace MacGowan Cooke, William James Lampton, Wells Hastings, H. C. Bunner: The Best American Humorous Short Stories (EBook, 2009, The Floating Press)
The Best American Humorous Short Stories
by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., O. Henry, George Randolph Chester, and 16 others
Prentice Hall Literature: Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes
by Thomas Jefferson, Abigail Adams, Rita Dove, and 136 others
